As a teacher/performer I often talk about vulnerabilty that makes what we do compelling. Controlled vulnerabilty.Great story in a book by the amazing soprano, Renee Fleming. She was going through a divorce and her heart was broken. She used all the emotion she had in a opera performace where she played a woman in a very similar situation. Feeling that she has really done a great "acting job" that evening she asked a friend what her thoughts were on the performance. She said..."Renee, I think you'll need to pump up the emotion in that scene. It really didn't play tonight."
WOW! She was so into her pain that she internalized it all. On stage, emotions need to be turned outward and made just a bit bigger than life. No one wants to see ordinary people onstage, you know?
In life, it's being okay with not really knowing what's coming down the pike. Just riding the wave.
You don't always have the time to fine tune the "coolness" factor.
Sometimes being on stage is alot easier!
Every year I give a party where people come togther and get to meet everyone. (Hate those wall flower parties!) Then, we all go outside and do a fire circle - this is always in the winter. What makes it cool is when people open up and say what's in their hearts around the fire. They drop the cool facade and connect. The ones that roll their eyes.....I hate that.
Go take your coolness somewhere else.
This party are for those with hot blood in their veins.
GO AHEAD AND HOWL!!!
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Please be careful not to misconstrue the 'rolling eyes.' Sometime it's just plain shyness. We do WISH we could be comfortable on stage. But we're still having fun!
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